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Alectryon connatus

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Family Sapindaceae

Taxonomy: Alectryon connatus (F.Muell.) Radlk.

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Alectryon connatum Radlk. (orthographic variant)
  • Nephelium connatum (F.Muell.) Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Spanoghea connata F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (21), ATRP_2020 (1), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (7), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (14), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (11), RadfordSmith_2024 (43), Sams_2017 (6), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (5), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (24). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 64 traits from 162 records in 20 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • flower_diameter (numerical): 0.3 cm (0.2-0.4 cm) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 14 mm (8-20 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 14 mm (8-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (7) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (6) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (6) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sams_2017; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 6659.02 mm2 (3904.85-13222.4 mm2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaflet_area (numerical): 1664.76 mm2 (976.21-3305.6 mm2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 92.5 mm (30-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 169.02 mg (89.68-317.77 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.5 cm (2-5 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 102.44 g/m2 (90.76-119.4 g/m2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024; Sams_2017]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.51 g/g (0.47-0.54 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); oblique (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (2) [sources: Butler_2004; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (1); flying_vertebrates (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Sams_2017]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 26.23 mg (21.68-30.77 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): globoid (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.85 mg/mm3 (0.81-0.88 mg/mm3) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 14 m (4-20 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241643J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221624L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
ABRS_20231521Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131114W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011811R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Chen_201777Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Sams_201766M. A. Sams, H. R. Lai, S. P. Bonser, P. A. Vesk, R. M. Kooyman, D. J. Metcalfe, J. W. Morgan, and M. M. Mayfield. “Landscape context explains changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26.10 (2017), pp. 1165-1176. doi: 10.1111/geb.12627.
Butler_200455D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Wright_200055I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
WAH_2022_233Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
WAH_2023_211Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.